Guwahati: Educating children in Garo Middle School in Assam which borders Meghalaya is a big problem some time ago because the teacher here does not meet the requirements in the teacher’s feasibility test (TET), the recognition made to teach at school a decade.
But everything has changed now, thanks to the initiative of an educator, who helped train Goro-language youth and 13 out of 33 of them cleaned the Tet exam done by the state government in October this year.
Youth can now take teaching assignments in Government Garo Middle Schools.
Linguistics and Minority Religion Garos at Assam has struggled to protect their language after Meghalaya bifurkasi in the 1970s.
Apurba Thakuria, who is a school inspector, not only helps preserve language but also ensures the language promoted.
In missionary mode, he departed to change the education scenario from Garo’s speaking villages.
The focus is in the village of Ghalkona in the lower Kumbrup Regency Assam.
Thakuria’s success story made him praise from the State Minister of Education, Ranoj Pegu, in the Assembly last week.
Puru will visit Gohalkona to annoy the successful candidate on December 31.
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The suburban village is inhabited by the Garo community, mostly in Kecatrupup and the purpose of Assam, do not have communication modes and the internet to connect it to the whole world.
During the peak period of Garo and Ulfa rebellion, many villages, along the Assam-Meghalaya border, witnessed clashes of violence between extremists and security forces.
Even today, higher education continues to avoid thousands of young men here.
For many matrices in Gohalkona, traveling 15 km to the closest college in Boko is a endless trip because the field is hilly.
There is no public transportation.
The lower Gohalkona elementary school was founded at the initiative of American Baptist missionaries in 1893.
Even today, a student must travel to Boko or Meghalaya to take advantage of senior secondary education.
“Our first task is to ensure that Garo Middle School which is managed by the government is not closed due to the lack of Garo teachers.
Teaching in vernacular media is very important and has been ratified in new education policies,” said Thakuria.
There are 72 Garo Elementary School at Kumrup District where 115 teachers are appointed.
The same thing is a problem in Goalpara where Garo schools are struggling to survive because of the lack of adequate teachers.
Many are functional with a single teacher and the quality of education has been very compromised.
“There is a large scarcity of teachers in Assam who can teach in Garo.
Many teachers do not want to go to the inhabited Garo area on the distance border,” he added.
“If we fail to produce more teachers who meet the requirements of Tet, there will be a big crisis in Garo schools as such senior teachers retirement,” he said.
Nokrakhi W Marak, a successful candidate from the farmer’s family, said they were given study material for training in October.
“Very few trained teachers are produced from our villages in the past, especially because of the lack of focused coaching,” he said.
Paresha Baishya, retired Principal of Middle School Dadara, who acted as the main resource person in training, said the challenge was to produce TEK teachers from the small area of Gohalkona and 10 surrounding suburban villages.
“Science and art teachers must know Garo.
It must be their mother’s language.
Little children in many schools cannot communicate in any language other than Garo.
Even Assam,” he said.
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